@M Howlign
Do you have a windows driver for your wifi card? If yes, some of the newer linux distros (Mandriva Spring 2007 Edition for example) will use 'ndiswrapper' along with your windows driver to make your wifi card work flawlessly in linux. And yes, its a wizard interface :)
As for the issue with Microsoft, yeah software piracy is wrong blah blah.
Go Mandriva.
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